• Vancouver is the largest metropolitan area in Western Canada and is the largest port in Canada.
• As of 2013 Vancouver is only 127 years old (Incorporated in 1886).
• Vancouver is one of the few cities in the world where you can swim and ski on the same day.
• Vancouver hosted the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

We all know that the 2010 Olympics were held in Vancouver but did you know they had to truck in snow to some venues because of the unusually mild winter? Organizers had seven years to prepare and a budget of about $2 billion but no amount of money or preparation could contain Mother Nature who kept things so warm that even snow making machines weren’t able to do their thing. Helicopters and trucks ended up bringing tons of snow to Cypress Mountain, allowing the competition to go on as planned

Kfar Giladi, Israel: Did you know?

• The kibbutz, (Hebrew word for “communal settlement”) is a unique rural community.
• The classical kibbutz slogan used to be: “Each one gives according to his ability; each one receives according to his needs.”
• Kfar Giladi is located south of Metula on the Naftali Mountains above the Hula Valley and along the Lebanese border
• Metula's tourism slogan is "No more north than that." and is home to the Canada Center, Israel’s largest Ice Arena.